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Digital Streams is an initiative between Sustainable Swansea and Natural Resources Wales that aims to help local people get connected with the rivers and streams that affect them and their community.
The project takes groups of local people out to learn about and practise digital photography whilst exploring the watery environment that surrounds or affects their area. An NRW officer accompanies the group around the various sites to provide first hand information about everything from water tables to misconnections whilst Sustainable Swansea provides support for participants to learn or improve their digital photography skills.
After the photography trips are over, an exhibition is then created where every participant will contribute images towards it.
The pilot project in Pontarddulais looking at the River Loughor proved to be successful and the so we have replicated the project looking at the River Tawe as well as the Townhill and Blaenymaes areas of Swansea. The last project took people out to explore a more diverse range of watery environments from canals to bogs and old quarries and proved to be a real eye opener for some residents, enabling them to visit and explore parts of their locality that they just didn't know existed!
After the photography trips are over, an exhibition is then created where every participant will contribute images towards it.
The pilot project in Pontarddulais looking at the River Loughor proved to be successful and the so we have replicated the project looking at the River Tawe as well as the Townhill and Blaenymaes areas of Swansea. The last project took people out to explore a more diverse range of watery environments from canals to bogs and old quarries and proved to be a real eye opener for some residents, enabling them to visit and explore parts of their locality that they just didn't know existed!
Digital Streams Tawe
The last project, about the River Tawe was a great success, with around 20 people taking part in trips to explore and photograph the river that Swansea is built around.
Over several months, the group took hundreds of amazing photos and explored parts of the river that some people had never visited or even seen before - even though it was right on our back door!
An exhibition of photographs has been created that has been visited by hundreds of people in the Civic Centre and the National Waterfront Museum and was very well received by all.
Over several months, the group took hundreds of amazing photos and explored parts of the river that some people had never visited or even seen before - even though it was right on our back door!
An exhibition of photographs has been created that has been visited by hundreds of people in the Civic Centre and the National Waterfront Museum and was very well received by all.
For more information and to see some more of the photos, please visit www.clearstreams.org.uk or email dai@environmentcentre.org.uk for more information.